A Discourse on the Study of the Law
By: Being An Introductory Lecture, read in the Public Schools, October XXV, M.DCC.LVIII, by Willliam Blackstone, Esq; D.C.L. Barrister at Law, and Vinerian Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Oxford ; Published by Direction of the Vice-Chancellor, Heads of Houses, and Proctors ....
Edition: 'The second edition'.
Publisher: Printed at the Clarendon Press
Published: 1758
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Viner, Charles, -- 1678-1756.
Notes: The main text includes a 'Postscript' on pages [35]-40 explaining that 'In order that the extent of Mr Viner's benefaction to the university of Oxford, and the encouragements now given (in consequence thereof) to the study of the law in that place, may bemore universally understood, it is thought proper to subjoin to this discourse a short account of his will and effects, and of the establishment which has lately been formed by the university'.

On an unsigned leaf at the end, and bound upside down in the Percy copy, is a printer's advertisement for the author's third edition of 'An Analysis of the Laws of England'.

ESTC2760B6.